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Airline sales or charter brokering.. is it a good job?

  • am good in sales ,, retail sales (10 years experience) and i was thinking to try to be a privet jet broker,, am so good in customer service, telemarketing, sales,,, i am working as marketing assistant now for an aviation company so i think i have the knowledge.. any one can help me with this pls… What do you know about airline sales or charter brokering? Am i gonaa earn good? Please and kindly help.. and no jokes

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    You can do ok. If you're working for a broker firm, then you'll get whatever salary they pay you. I don't have any idea what that might be, but I would expect enough for a reasonable living, but you certainly won't get rich doing it. If you work for yourself, a broker typically makes 5% of the total cost of the flight. It's a very difficult market to get into. Most consumers are going to call either a large broker (that usually pass themselves off as being the one's doing the flying) or the charter company directly. Each of those companies are actively looking for customers, and have more resources and connections than you likely do. What I'm saying is you can do it, but expect to put a lot of effort into it. You would be starting a business from scratch, not just making a few phone calls and making a few quick bucks. A little bit of inside knowledge for you; charter companies will typically offer a 5% "broker" discount to anyone that asks for it, whether they are brokers or just passengers. If you call and get a price, you would typically pass the full price on to the customer and take the 5%. If the customer calls the charter company they will see the same price, so it's up to the broker to convince the customer they they can provide them with more services than the charter company can. It's smoke and mirrors, brokers generally just take their cut, coordinate client needs with the charter company and then they are done. As far as airline sales, I couldn't tell you much about that, but It seems to me that between the airlines, travel agents and sites like expedia, you don't have a chance.

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If you deal with larger airplanes, ACMI contracts for charters, seasonal (Hajj flights), leasing of airplanes, there is big money to be made, but it is extremely specialized, and you have to have your eyes and ears around the world with leasing companies, used aircraft leasing and sales, know what type airplanes and what prices are going figures, even brokering flight crews, cabin crews for short term contracts etc. I personally dealt with a few people who did exactly that, it was aviation A to Z for them, and could be anything, from locating available airplanes, to find a maintenance team to be based in North Cyprus... You get to know SITA addresses, country codes for phones, and sometimes travel around the world to organize everything yourself, and deals with hotels for crews and staff - The commissions can be good, and your expenses high... as well - Even though I am retired, they sometimes still call me regarding numbers for 747, or crews, or training, or places overseas...

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It's a pretty small market, even if you do both passenger & freight loads. But, as the costs of owning a plane continue to climb, more companies are getting rid of there corporate planes & chartering one when they need it. I wouldn't quit one job before I had 100% confidence in getting something better, the economy is just too slow right now.

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